Lebedev Anton V.,
Candidate Sc. {Cultural Studies}, Associate Professor, Department of English for Professional Communication, Ogarev Mordovia State University (Saransk, Russia), toshaleb@mail.ru
The article deals with the concept “creation of the world” in religious and mythological items of Finno-Ugric and Turkic groups of the Volga region. It analyses the issues of culture interrelation, and concludes on the common Christian and mythological foundations of various national worldviews.
Keywords: national worldview; Mordovia mythology; world creation; Turkic peoples; moral norms.
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